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SYMPHONY

SYMPHONY

You are in a void. Describe the void. I have some notes here. Is this the moon? hanging no visible signs of support. poetry is for extracting one meaning puts down the notes straightens the pictures. to stop flapping is a relief to be done with the expectation collective action

theory

Cinema Signifies a Change in the Fundamental Structure of Reality

Cinema Signifies a Change in the Fundamental Structure of Reality

Framing note The following article advances a post-cinematic theory of perception. It draws from Bergson and Deleuze, and from the associated milieux, in biology, technics and metaphysics respectively, of Raymond Ruyer, Gilbert Simondon and Spinoza, to provide its conceptual framework. The article assumes no specialist knowledge. Rather than critical,

reading Bergson: after the advent of cinema, series 1

reading Bergson: after the advent of cinema, series 1

the painter of mental scenery

the painter of mental scenery

AI Perceptual Ontology: better AI through better metaphysics by turns

AI Perceptual Ontology: better AI through better metaphysics by turns

Bergson, Deleuze & Cinema (to be contd.)

Bergson, Deleuze & Cinema (to be contd.)

freedom, distraction, the interval & emotion

freedom, distraction, the interval & emotion

Minus workshop 7, part 1: naturalism / gesture

Minus workshop 7, part 1: naturalism / gesture

journal

Stuart Cooke reads Sergio Pitol's El arte de la fuga

Stuart Cooke reads Sergio Pitol's El arte de la fuga

1996 in Spanish 2015 in English George Henson's translation although, the following is Stuart Cooke's translation: ... a simple description, without additions, without delays, echoes or shadows, fatally reduces the power of the story, converts it into a mere anecdote—something vulgar, basically. Always, from the very

เกาะลันตา, Koh Lanta

เกาะลันตา, Koh Lanta

กระบี่, Krabi

กระบี่, Krabi

เชียงใหม่, Chiang Mai

เชียงใหม่, Chiang Mai

กรุงเทพฯ, Krung Thep (City of Angels), Bangkok, 1 night in

กรุงเทพฯ, Krung Thep (City of Angels), Bangkok, 1 night in

Berlin Revisited

Berlin Revisited

Αθήνα

Αθήνα

poetry

Political Works

Political Works

bad weather I hear you are having bad weather while here it is cold but settled and Nameed tells me it is not unseasonal he tells me also he has a good manager unreasonal this is my neologism for places reason can go but it is not allowed Nameed is

moieties*

moieties*

A Piece of Fabric, Tell it to the birds & lying in long grass - for my parents

A Piece of Fabric, Tell it to the birds & lying in long grass - for my parents

enantiomorphosis: the messianic | Danaë, or resistance

enantiomorphosis: the messianic | Danaë, or resistance

a journey (2016)

a journey (2016)

fr. Sweetheart, over____ (2006)

fr. Sweetheart, over____ (2006)

the pieces of ... soap

the pieces of ... soap

otherwriting

I Am Out of Control of My Own Material

I Am Out of Control of My Own Material

Charles Stivale, a scholar I admire and to whom I have been grateful on more than one occasion (not least for sending me his recently published book, On Painting, 2025, a translation of Deleuze's 1981 seminars), graciously read my "Cinema Signifies a Change in the Fundamental Structure

The Challenge of Writing a Novel: world, character creation and monstrosity

The Challenge of Writing a Novel: world, character creation and monstrosity

correspondence regarding "Cinema Signifies ..."

correspondence regarding "Cinema Signifies ..."

progress is a bad optic and the failure of political imagination

progress is a bad optic and the failure of political imagination

simile.ai | perfection = the absolute noncontingency of contingency

simile.ai | perfection = the absolute noncontingency of contingency

contempt

contempt

Stupidity, Idiocy and the Problem of Evil: art after genocide, part III

Stupidity, Idiocy and the Problem of Evil: art after genocide, part III